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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 41
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To Israel the Lord says: Ye are my servants; I will preserve you—Idols are nothing—One shall bring good tidings to Jerusalem.
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Keep</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Silence.">silence</a> before me, O islands; and let the people <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 40: 31.">renew</a> <i>their</i> strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/41/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 50: 10 (10-11).">together</a> to judgment.
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Who raised up the righteous <i>man</i> from the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 46: 11.">east</a>, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made <i>him</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 1; Dan. 5: 30.">rule</a> over kings?  he gave <i>them</i> as the dust to his sword, <i>and</i> as driven stubble to his bow.
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He pursued them, <i>and</i> passed safely; <i>even</i> by the way <i>that</i> he had not gone with his feet.
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Who hath wrought and done <i>it,</i> calling the generations from the beginning?  I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Firstborn; TG Jesus Christ, Jehovah.">first</a>, and with the last; I <i>am</i> he.
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The isles saw <i>it,</i> and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
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They <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Service.">helped</a> every one his neighbour; and <i>every one</i> said to his brother, Be of good courage.
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So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, <i>and</i> he that smootheth <i>with</i> the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It <i>is</i> ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, <i>that</i> it <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 40: 20.">should</a> not be moved.
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But thou, Israel, <i>art</i> my servant, Jacob whom I have <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peculiar People.">chosen</a>, the seed of Abraham my <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="James 2: 23.">friend</a>.
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<i>Thou</i> whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou <i>art</i> my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Mission of.">servant</a>; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 26: 24; Deut. 31: 6 (6, 8); Isa. 43: 5; Isa. 44: 8; D&C 68: 6.">Fear</a> thou not; for I <i>am</i> with thee: be not dismayed; for I <i>am</i> thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
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Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 10: 16.">perish</a>.
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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, <i>even</i> them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
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For I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
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Fear not, thou <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE meek and humble.">worm</a> Jacob, <i>and</i> ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Jehovah."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a>, and thy <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/41/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Redeemer.">redeemer</a>, the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/41/14d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Holiness.">Holy</a> One of Israel.
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Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Israel’s erstwhile strong enemies.">mountains</a>, and beat <i>them</i> small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
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Thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 2.">fan</a> them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and</i> shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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<i>When</i> the poor and needy seek water, and <i>there is</i> none, <i>and</i> their tongue faileth for thirst, I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will hear them, <i>I</i> the God of Israel will not <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 21: 15 (14-15); D&C 61: 36.">forsake</a> them.
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I will open <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 43: 19.">rivers</a> in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Earth, Renewal of.">wilderness</a> a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR acacia.">shittah</a> tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/19b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR cypress; Isa. 60: 13.">fir</a> tree, <i>and</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/41/19c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB ash tree.">pine</a>, and the box tree together:
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That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">created</a> it.
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Produce your cause, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; bring forth your <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 71: 8 (7-10).">strong</a> <i>reasons,</i> saith the King of Jacob.
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Let them bring <i>them</i> forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they <i>be,</i> that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
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Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye <i>are</i> gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold <i>it</i> together.
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Behold, ye <i>are</i> of nothing, and your work of nought: an <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 37.">abomination</a> <i>is he that</i> chooseth you.
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I have raised up <i>one</i> from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as <i>upon</i> morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
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Who hath <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of.">declared</a> from the beginning, that we may know?  and beforetime, that we may say, <i>He is</i> righteous?  yea, <i>there is</i> none that sheweth, yea, <i>there is</i> none that declareth, yea, <i>there is</i> none that heareth your words.
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The first <i>shall say</i> to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
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For I beheld, and <i>there was</i> no man; even among them, and <i>there was</i> no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
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Behold, they <i>are</i> all <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/41/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>; their works <i>are</i> nothing: their molten <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/41/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 9; 3 Ne. 21: 17 (17-19); D&C 1: 16.">images</a> <i>are</i> wind and confusion.
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